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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2269666491.jpg?w=1024″] It’s Ash Wednesday in Brooklyn and two plainclothes detectives are getting coffee from a street cart. They continue walking down the street past a church. As they approach a museum, a commotion ensues. Someone has been shot, and the shooters are on the second floor of the museum, they are told. “Beyond…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2261629185_b7080a.jpg?w=1024″] A restoration of the Roman Colosseum’s southern piazza has been completed after four years of construction, according to Artnet News. The project, led by Stefano Boeri Interiors, has recreated the travertine-paved pedestrian plaza outside the amphitheater’s southern façade, where spectators once waited to enter the arena. Built between 70 and 80 CE,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Durative_LSimpson_2026_Detail2_forOPC_PhotoCred_JamesWang_300dpi.jpg?w=1024″] The forthcoming Obama Presidential Center in Chicago has announced the final round of artist commissions that will decorate its campus in the Windy City’s South Side when it opens in June. The latest set of commissions will be realized by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Jeffrey Gibson, Rashid Johnson, Hugo McCloud,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2241266904.jpg?w=1024″] The Trump administration released on Friday its design for a 250-foot triumphal arch that would face the Lincoln Memorial, part of a portfolio of projects intended to monumentalize the president’s time in Washington, D.C. According to The New York Times, which first reported the news, the plan was submitted to the U.S.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-18-at-11.22.08-AM.png?w=1024″] A long-running legal saga between Yuga Labs, the parent company of Bored Ape Yacht Club, and artist Ryder Ripps and his business partner Jeremy Cahen, has finally ended, with the parties reaching a settlement on Tuesday. While the terms of the settlement are confidential, the parties disclosed that they agreed to a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-1240102251.jpg?w=1024″] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree on Friday that has imposed sanctions on five Russian cultural figures who are involved with organizing the Russian Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale. The news was first reported by UA News. They include Anastasia Karneeva, who is the commissioner of this year’s Russian Pavilion,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/beeples-piggies.jpg?w=1024″] You couldn’t possibly have thought that you’d seen the last of Beeple‘s grotesque robot dogs? Last appearing in Art Basel Miami Beach‘s new Zero10 digital art section in December, Regular Animals is now on the loose in San Francisco. So, if you’ll permit me, wholet the dogs out? The answer to that…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Install1121325.jpeg?w=1024″] The bell tolls frequently these days for New York galleries of all sizes, suggesting that something in our art ecosystem is seriously broken. (Josh Kline has a diagnosis for that, as you may have heard.) Amid yet another wave of gallery closures, there is much to mourn. But there is also a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/art002e009302large.jpg?w=1024″] On April 6, the four astronauts aboard the Integrity spacecraft as part of the Artemis II mission documented their breathtaking view as they circled the far side of the moon and began their return to Earth. NASA shared a gallery of spectacular images of the first flyby, revealing areas of the moon…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Maurizio-Cattelan-portrait.webp?w=1024″] Maurizio Cattelan will inaugurate Milan Design Week at 7 a.m. on April 20 with what can only be described as a hopefully civilized and very caffeinated experiment in amateur economics: a public “breakfast-barter” in Piazza Duomo. According to Artribune, the premise is simple. Bring an object—ideally something “curious, iconic, affective, eccentric or…